Maccabi Tel Aviv

Letters to the Editor, November 14 2025

Birmingham is the front line of the fight for the soul of our nation

When local authorities and police retreat in the face of extremists, it risks a spiral of fear and grievance. At all levels, national, devolved and local, the state needs to wake up

Maccabi-loving former hostages Gali and Ziv Berman attend first football match since their return to Israel

Standing on the pitch at Bloomfield Stadium, the twins thanked Maccabi supporters for ‘fighting’ for them during their time in captivity

Had I been wearing my kippah, I would have never made it back from Birmingham

My grandparents took their mezuzahs down so the Nazis would not spot them and, at Villa Park, I was terrified of being identified

Revealed: Pro-Palestine mob plotted to hunt down Maccabi players

WhatsApp messages seen by the JC show activists planned hotel stakeouts to locate Israeli football team ahead of Aston Villa match

Maccabi Tel Aviv may have lost to Villa but they turned up, and showed that the people of Israel live

After filing past hundreds of police officers, the atmosphere in Villa Park stadium was unsettling, with the whole corner of the Doug Ellis stand empty

As Jews were herded into a caged court, Islamists bellowed ‘Allahu Akhbar’: Villa Park was a failure of British leadership

At the match in Birmingham last night, the police and government either failed to stop the mob or actively collaborated with them

‘F**k every Jew here’, rants hooded Gaza gang member at Villa Park stadium

Hundreds of protesters and police descended on the stadium ahead of the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match

Fifty police officers sent to guard synagogues ahead of Aston Villa match

Jewish community feels ‘targeted and worried’, said one local resident